Learned helplessness

ranging from recreational volleyball, to intramural basketball, to high school tennis. After experiencing injuries that would not only sideline me from participating in sports but also affecting my daily routines such as taking steps up the stairs, I learned how transcendent the value of movement is. In conjunction with my value for physical health and movement, I also have a passion in helping others; this naturally propelled me to pursue a career in physical therapy. In 2013, the American…

1. a. Retroactive interference occurs when more recent information gets in the way of when one is trying to recall older information. This new material interferes with remembering old information already stored in the long term memory (LTM). An example of this would be if an individual were to call his/her ex-girlfriend/boyfriend the new boyfriend/girlfriend’s name. This example shows that the recent name retroactively interferes with the previous name, which is evidently problematic for recall.…

Shakespeare’s Sister, Virginia Woolf, through complex analogies and language, makes the point that women during the Elizabethan age were prevented from exhibiting their own genius. As the excerpt states, Shakespeare went to school as a boy, and learned the basics that were taught at the time. He went on to be a successful and famous actor and play writer. In the anecdote that Woolf creates, however, Shakespeare’s fictional sister, Judith, is shunned from learning and is forced to…

accept the loans and made sure I earned all of my work-study. I kept worrying about how I would pay back $3,000 to the government, which was why the second solution seemed impossible, but it was unreasonable of me to not attend college. Nonetheless, I learned that agonizing about the endless future possibilities was not going to fix the present problem. In the end, I accepted the challenges and responsibilities to pay for college by signing up for the payment plan and earning all of my…

Zimbardo’s attributed the prisoner’s obedience to learned helplessness and depersonalisation “Results”: The credibility of any findings of the Stanford Prison Experiment was called into question due to the lack of a control group and the fact that the experiment group was made up solely of college age, white…

because of working as an agent. In his article The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, Richard Wright claims that “here my Jim Crow education assumed quite a different form. It was no longer brutally cruel, but subtly cruel. Here I learned to lie, to steal, to dissemble. I learned to play that dual role which every Negro must play if he wants to eat and live.” The quotation and the black agent shares the common because living under those unfair treatment and discrimination, this black agent learns…

Effective practice in health and care settings Communication is a basic human right and the exchange of information by which messages are sent and understood by individuals or groups of people. There are different types of communication such as one to one communication, written communication and group communication. These can be formal or informal for example: in a health and social care setting it would involve formal communication. Effective communication can either be verbal or non-verbal.…

trustworthy doctor-patient relationship. I saw doctors communicating in challenging situations, such as treating patients suffering from severe depression due to terminal illnesses; sensitivity, integrity and communication were key for effective care. I learned how important the doctor - patient relationship is and that patients need treatment in a holistic manner; a doctor's skills must be flexible…

work, poor quality of work and missed meetings. As a future physician, I will continue to embrace academia and scholarly activities but I will be more cognizant on the implications of “having too much on my plate”. I will embrace the lessons I have learned from this experience and implement the many strategies I developed to my future…

One of the best known movies of this century, Remember the Titans, is a timeless classic that is continuously being featured all over the nation. The 2000 film, touched on a subject that has been and continues to be prevalent in our society since the founding of America, racism. The wildly successful film focuses on a newly racial integrated football team in a small town in Virginia. Based on a true story, an African American football coach, Herman Boone, is appointed as the new head coach in…